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Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

Demainbray's cometarium

1750-1760

Edmund Culpeper

1720

100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.

1784

Thomas Tuttell

1695-1702

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755

Demainbray's wharf jib crane model

1729-1753

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

1769

The Improved Pedometer or Waywiser

1765-1806

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

Trade card for John Yarwell, optician, London, England, 1697

1697

Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"

1757

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

Hindley's pyrometer and three expansion tubes made by Henry Hindley

1752

Glass bell jar with a brass collar

1761

King George III's friction machine

1762

Chronometer in Gold Case by Thomas Earnsham, 1795-1810

1795-1810

George III's apparatus for oblique and compound collision

1762

Double brass stand for bell jars on a brass pillar

1761

Experimental carbon pencil microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

model carriage chassis with two axles, 1762

1762

Powdered graphite microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

1888

George III's cycloidal pendulum

1762

George III's tidal demonstration model

1762

King George III's central forces machine

1762

George III's pendulum

1762

Crossley table telephone, 1879

1879

Replica of Bell's 1876 'iron-box' receiver, 1959

1876

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

1878

Experimental microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Experimental carbon block microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Experimental microphones with carbon pencils and cups, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Granular microphone in glass tube, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Coherer with coarse brass turnings, 1894

1894

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

Cylinder electrical machine, 1810-1817

1810-1817

Henley's magneto electric double needle telegraph, 1848-1852

1848-1852

Single-needle telegraph by W. F. Cooke, 1840-1860

1840-1860

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

Receiving ‘jigger’ used by the Marconi Company, 1899

1899

Filings coherer, Lodge pattern, 1895-1900

1895-1900

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

1865

Wheatstone printing telegraph, 1841

1841

Stroh's type-printer for Wheatstone ABC communicator, 1870-1881

1870-1881

Filings coherer, glass tube formed into T-shape at one end and bent round into U-shape at other end with bulb, 1899

1899

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851